Free ChatGPT question finder · Prompt research for ChatGPT Ads and AI search
What are yourcustomers askingChatGPT?
The ChatGPT Question Finder is a free tool from Spend Less Grow More that shows the questions people ask ChatGPT about your product or category, how often each is asked per month, and which are rising, grouped into themes you can use as ChatGPT Ads context hints or as answers to publish for AI search.
How to find what your customers are asking ChatGPT
Enter the product or category your customers would name. You'll see the questions they ask ChatGPT about it, how often each is asked, which are rising and which sites ChatGPT cites.
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Enter what customers call your product
Type the product or category a customer would name, like sympathy flowers or running shoes, not your brand name.
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Read the questions by theme
See every question with its monthly asks in ChatGPT, which ones are rising, and which sites ChatGPT cites in its answers.
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Put them to work
Use the themes as starting points for ChatGPT Ads context hints, and publish clear answers to the biggest questions so AI search can cite you.
Example: what people ask ChatGPT about sympathy flowers
People ask ChatGPT 65 questions about sympathy flowers. The top 40 add up to about 1,250 asks a month in the US, and the biggest, “what flowers symbolize sympathy?”, rose from 38 in June to 208 in September 2026.
| Question asked of ChatGPT | Asks a month |
|---|---|
| what flowers symbolize sympathy? | 208 |
| what is the appropriate flower for sympathy? | 129 |
| how much should you spend on sympathy flowers? | 115 |
| what to give for sympathy instead of flowers for loss? | 83 |
| what are the best flowers for sympathy? | 73 |
| what is the difference between sympathy flowers and funeral flowers? | 61 |
Asks a month, by theme
- Choosing the best500
- What it is and what it means246
- Alternatives206
- Cost and budget136
- How to and etiquette119
- What to avoid43
Sites ChatGPT cites most
- teleflora.com12 of 40 answers
- emilypost.com7 of 40 answers
- funeral.com7 of 40 answers
- bloomingexpert.com6 of 40 answers
Two things a florist could act on today. About 200 asks a month are people looking for something other than flowers, a ready-made audience for plants, gift baskets or memorial gifts. Another 255 ask how much to spend or what the etiquette is, questions a clear page on your own site can answer for AI search. Data: DataForSEO, ChatGPT, US English, through September 2026, pulled October 14, 2026.
Turn questions into ChatGPT Ads context hints
Each theme is a reason customers ask. Rewrite it as one natural phrase that says what you offer, who it's for and when they need it, and use that as a context hint in Ads Manager.
OpenAI says context hints guide which conversations an ad matches, but they aren't exact-match keywords and don't guarantee delivery. Questions in your customers' own words are the best raw material. The ChatGPT Ads Manager guide covers how hints work, and the ChatGPT Ads guide covers the rest of the platform.
Turn questions into answers AI will cite
The biggest questions are the pages worth writing. Answer each one directly near the top of a page, in plain language, so ChatGPT and other AI search tools can quote it.
The “who ChatGPT cites” list in your results shows the sites you're competing with to be named in the answer. To see whether AI can read your own site, run the free AI Visibility Checker.
What AI search volume means, and what it doesn't
It's an estimate, not a count from OpenAI. Use it to rank questions against each other, not to forecast exact traffic.
OpenAI doesn't publish how often anything is asked in ChatGPT. The monthly asks here are DataForSEO's modeled estimate for ChatGPT in the US. They're most useful for comparisons: which questions are big, which are rising, and which themes matter most for a category.
ChatGPT questions vs Google questions
Tools like AnswerThePublic show what people type into search engines. This shows what people ask ChatGPT, with ChatGPT volume, monthly trends and the sites ChatGPT cites in its answers.
Use both. Google questions tell you what to rank for in search results. ChatGPT questions tell you what to answer for AI search, and what to write context hints around for ChatGPT Ads.
What do people ask ChatGPT about my industry?+
Enter your product or category in the ChatGPT Question Finder. It lists the questions people ask ChatGPT about it in the US, with monthly asks, a 12-month trend and the sites ChatGPT cites, grouped into themes.
Is there search volume for ChatGPT?+
Not from OpenAI, which doesn't publish how often questions are asked. Data providers estimate it. This tool uses DataForSEO's AI search volume, an estimate of how often a question is asked of ChatGPT each month in the US.
How is AI search volume measured?+
DataForSEO models it from its own AI data; it isn't a count from OpenAI. Read it as relative demand: a question asked 200 times a month matters far more than one asked 5 times, even if neither number is exact.
How do I use ChatGPT questions to target ChatGPT Ads?+
Turn each theme into a context hint: one natural phrase that says what you offer, who it's for and when they need it. OpenAI says context hints guide matching but aren't exact-match keywords, so write them the way customers ask.
How is this different from AnswerThePublic?+
AnswerThePublic shows questions people type into search engines. The ChatGPT Question Finder shows questions asked of ChatGPT, with ChatGPT volume, monthly trends and the sites ChatGPT cites in its answers.
Where does the data come from?+
DataForSEO's AI optimization data for ChatGPT, US English. Volumes update monthly, and each search is cached for two weeks.
Is the ChatGPT Question Finder free?+
Yes, with no login. Every new search costs us a data fee, so each visitor gets five searches every ten minutes.
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